Improvement in seeding-machines



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se-ed Drill.

Patented July 1 2, 1870.

N.PETERS. PHOT0-L|THOGRAFHER.WASHINGTON. D. C.

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Letters` Patent No. 105,386, elated July 12, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEEDING-MACHINES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that we; JOHN H. THOMAS and PHIN- EAS P. MASTfof Springfield, in the county of ClarkK and State of Ohio, have invented certain Improvements in Seeding-Machines, of which the following is a specitication, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawing. 1

Our present invention relates to improvements in `machines used for sowing grain; and

The invention consists in pi'ovidingand applying to the machine, a series of curved tribes for sowing Y the grain broadcast', as hereinafter explained.

Iigure 1 -i's a `longitudinal vertical section on the line a: a: of fig. 2.

Figure 2 isa transversevertical section on the line The general construction of the drill or'inachine, in this case, is the same `as that described iu the several patents heretofore granted to us, and consists essentially of a rectangular 4frame, A, mounted o'n two wheels, like a cart, and having a seed-hopper, B,

mounted thereon, with or `without a grass-seed hopper, C, 'as represented in fig. 1.

As usually constructed, thesemachinesare provided with drill-tubes or hoes D, connected to drag-bars hinged at the -front end of the frame, or,`1nore recently, to sliding bars mounted in the frame at the front, as represented in tig. 1, and,when so constructed, are adapted to sowV the grain in drills or rows only. Y In many sections of the country, and at certain times, it is preferred to sow the grain broadcast, instead ot' iu drills, or both together, and it is to enable this to be done with the same machine that our prescnt invention is designed.

.To do this, we provide a series ofl curved tubes, E, which are so constructed that they can be attached to hopper-bottom, and have their front end extend forwardvin front of the drill-tubes, as shown in fig. 1,

and thus scatter the grain broadcast in front of the 'hoes or tubes, which latter, if left attached, will cover the seed thus scattered more or less perfectly.

' In order that these tubes may be applied to the machine and not be iu the way of the drag-bars, they are curved or bent to one side, as represented iu tig.

.2, so that the drag-bars and drill-hoes D may be raised up between the tubes E without any interference.

In a machine of the kind here shown, in which feed-rollers and cups are used, thesecondary cup or spout e, withits tube uf, willbe detached from the cup I, and the spout E attached to the eup or to the shaft Ir instead. y

In that class of machines in which a reciprocating slide is used, instead of feed-rollers the .tubes E will be attached to the under side of the hopper, in place of the tubes leading to the drill-hoes, which tubes will be re moved for that purpose. Thus, by simply changing the tubes, the machine may, at will, be converted from a drill to a broadcast-seeder, or 'vice corsa, as desired. Or, itpreferred,each alternate tube only may 'be changed, in which case Ythe machine will become a' combined drill and broadcast-seeder, each'alternate spout sowing broadcast, while the remaining alternate' cups'would deposit their seed through the hoes D, 1u

drills, and thus tbe farmer may bey provided with a` machine which, without any other change than opening and closing the proper slides, may be used to sow grain broadcast or in drills, or both at once.

Having thus described our invention,

1. The curved spouts E, attached to the hopperbottom, or to the' seed-cups or shaft of a grain-drill, substantially as described.

2. 'The curved spouts E, so arranged as to receive the grain directly from the feeders or cups I, and scat-ter it broadcast in front of or between the drillhoes, substantially as described.

JOHN H. THOMAS. PHINEAS P.` MAST.

Witnesses:

J. W. THOMAS, GHAs. It. Ouais'. 

